I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIEND

As God has loved me

So I love you too

Want you to live free

To do what I do

To be full of joy

Abide in our way

And never be destroyed

By the drama of the day

All you really need

Is a heart full of love

To Know that I plead

For you up above

You are my friend

And never my slave

With me to the end

That’s why I freely gave

My life for you

Up upon the cross

Will you be ever true

Not counting the cost

Of serving me now

And forever more

I’ll show you how

To live better than before

I am your friend

Bringing joy and peace

With you til the end

My love will never cease.

No more dark night

My friend that is over

Step into the light

Embrace your makeover

We’ll start afresh

Forget all that’s history

Conquer the flesh

March on to victory!


This rhyme is inspired by the following scripture in the Holy Bible:


John 15:9-17 (NRSV)

Christ, the friend and lover

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

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http://aintathatgoodnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/come-to-jesus.html

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